Boehner may be a great guy for all I know but he's not a crusader, which is what we need now. Jack Ryan as Speaker of the House after the tidal wave in November could and would lead a no holds barred counterrevolution.

John Boehner is a very decent, low key kind of guy, and the Republicans owe him a large vote of thanks for keeping the fires burning and the flag up through a difficult period, but I do not think he necessarily will become Speaker if the Republicans win a majority in the House.

Boehner is adhering to the Gospel according to Ann Coulter, rather than Morris. He's being practical.

Newsweek, OTOH, wants to have something they can trumpet as a Republican failure on 11/3, so, if the Rs take the House and split the Senate and they predicted super-majorities in both, Norman Thomas' grandson can chortle about how badly they fell short.

As it is, about the only thing they may be able to celebrate is beating Christine O'Donnell only by lying about her.

(Sort of like the mean girls in junior high humiliating one of the square girls)

Speaking of DC leadership post-11/3, has this occurred to anyone else?

1) The Obama administration, regardless of what you think about their policies, was seemingly swamped by unforced errors (to many to list here).

2) Rham is leaving the administration to run for mayor of Chi-town. He promptly commits two completely unforced errors: a) "it's good to be home" filmed while still in DC and b) can't run for mayor if you're not a resident of the municipality for x number of months prior to putting your name on the ballot.

can't run for mayor if you're not a resident of the municipality for x number of months prior to putting your name on the ballot.

The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners decided that this same law, applied to an aldermanic candidate, did not disqualify him, even though he had spent much of the prior 12 months not in Chicago, but in Wisconsin, in FCI Oxford. Surely the President's Chief of Staff deserves the same consideration as a jailbird.

(The CBEC found Jones ineligible on other grounds -- he had been released before his term was fully served. The case went up to the Illinois Supreme Court which decided Jones was ineligible to run, not because he lacked residency but because he was a convicted felon.)

We'll see, FLS. I just heard about this one this morning and haven't had a chance to read up on it. I believe there was a claim that he was eligible due to home ownership, but there is a precedent that disputes that.

Aside from that, I'm still out for more info on the matter. On the one hand, you can't imagine that the freaking CoS of the White House wouldn't have realized this issue and already have a contingency for it. On the other...look at the seeming ineptitude of the White House in question.

how Prop 19 in California (legalizing MJ) is not a more direct refutation of federal law than Arizona's immigration enforcement ever was?

California would merely be Restoring the Lost Constitution (TM,Randy Barnett). States possess the police power, which allows them to regulate for the health and welfare of their residents. The Federal government was thought to be a government of limited, defined powers, until the 1930s, when the US Supreme Court began to widen the Commerce Clause to the point a fleet of trucks could pass through.

So the Feds could block the import of MJ, or forbid it from interstate commerce, or tax it, but their ability to prohibit a homeowner from throwing a few seeds in his backyard would have seemed limited before Wickard.

After cementing a working relationship of mutual support with the first African american GOP National Committee Chairman, Sarah Palin is going to a private dinner with heavy GOP donors in Palm Beach, and locals Rush Limbaugh and Anne Coulter may also attend. So let Boehner be Boehner. He will do a better job under Palin's Presidential leadership.